Flier.



C. T. BURLIN.

FLIER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.9, I913.

1,230,272. Patented June 19, 1917.

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FLIER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, I913.

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FLIER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9. i913.

Patented June 19, 1917.

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Z O t m 2 U n a rrE i STATES ATEN CHARLES T. BURLIN, OF WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE WHITIN MACHINE WORKS, OF WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSA- CHUSETTS.

FLIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 9, 1913. Serial No. 783,850.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. BURLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Whitinsville, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented the following-described Improvements in Fliers.

The improvements relate tofliers such as used on roving and twisting machines and involve certain novel features of structure hereinafter described, which eliminate the special and diflicult forging processes commonly necessary and thereby serve to reduce the cost of production. The new flier may be made in whole or in part of sheet metal and is desirably formed in part of commercial sheet steel and in part of bar steel cut off and turned in an automatic lathe, the sheet steel and bar steel portions being permanently united by pressing, brazing, or otherwise, so as to form a well-balanced and durable flier equal in all respects to the handforged article. The invention concerns the several parts independently and also in their relation to the other parts, as will be apparent to those skilled in this art and as pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated the improved flier and the several parts and stages of its manufacture.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the completed flier;

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof;

Fig. 3 a bottom plan view thereof;

Fig. 4 a flat sheet-metal blank from which the part which I term for convenience of reference, the supplemental section, is formed;

Fig. 5 the same blank when rolled up and ready to be bent;

Fi 6 a sheet-metal blank from which the part term the main sheet-metal section of the flier, is formed;

Fig. 7 the same blank after being rolled or bent into rounded or leg form;

Fig. 8 the supplemental section shown in Fig. 5 after bending;

Fig. 9 the .main section of Fig. 7 after bending;

Fig. 10 shows the two sections in the act of assemblage;

Figs. 11 and 12 are respectively elevation and top plan views of the neck section of the flier; and

Fig. 13 a plan of the flier ring.

Referring to the drawings, the flier proper is composed of several parts or sections. The'presser, marked 1, is of common form and function and constitutes no part of the present invention, except in so far as it cooperates with the presser mounting formed on one of the legs of the flier and hereinafter described. The main section is indicated generally by 3 and is composed of two leg portions of unequal length marked 3 and 3 respectively, and an intermediate flat portion 3. The supplementary section is indicated generally by 4 and is comprised of leg portions 4 and l with an intervening flat portion 4. The neck section is indicated generally by 5, and the ring section by 6. As shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 9, the main section 3 is formed from a flat blank stamped or cut from sheet metal in substantially the shape shown, which is determined with reference to the style of flier to be made and the distribution of the weight therein. While in the flat form and if desired, coincidently with the cutting of the blank from the stock, two opposing shoulders or projections 7 are struck up from it in such position as to serve as a presser mounting in the finished article. The end portions 3 and 3 of this blank are then each rolled or curled, as indicated in Fig. 7 the side margins of the portions 3 being brought nearly into butting contact with each other so as to form a narrow yarn slot, indicated by the curved line marked 8 in Figs. 2 and 7. The side margins of the blank 3 are cut in curves which are comlementary to each other so that the slot ormed between them is also curved or staggered, as usual in fliers, for preventing escape of the yarn from the interior of the leg. The intermediate portion 3 between the leg portions is left flat or nearly so and punched with an aperture, the mar in of which is drawn upwardly to form a oss 9, and such aperture and boss may be formed and desirably are formed while the section is in the flat condition illustrated by Fig. 6, and may be done at the same time the blank is cut from the stock. The rolled sectionlis then bent over a suitable form into flier shape, as represented by Fig. 9, the upper rolled part of the leg portion 1) forming the familiar funnel-shaped entrance through which the the leg.

The supplemental section 4: is formed of a flat blank of a contour such as shown in Fig.

4, which is also determined with reference to the-style of flier and the desired distribution of the weight therein, and the leg portions 4 and 4: thereof are then rolled up, as indicated in Fig. 5. The intermediate portion 4 is left flat or substantially flat and punched with an aperture similar to that in the main section and also with a boss 10, which, however, projects downwardly from the a erture. This section is then bent into'flier s ape, as shown by Fi 8, and the two sections 3 and 4 are then rought together to be permanently united. This may be done in .several ways, the preferred method consisting in telescoping one section into the other, as, for example, by pushing the leg portion 3* into the corresponding leg portion 4 of the other section, and as shown by Fig. 10. When brought together in this manner, the leg 4 which is left open at the top to receive the other leg, can be folded down and the leg 4 can be fitted snugly to the inner or under side of the leg 3, so that each section will thus reinforce the other, forming a stiff bridge of double thickness between the parallel portions of the legs and on which to mount the neck, the bridge being further and materially reinforced by the bosses of theneck apertures. The sections are brazed orsoldered as thus assembled, forming practically a single piece. The apertures in the two sections will be brought into alinement by such assemblage and ready to receive the neck 5, which consists of a solid piece of metal centrally bored and counter-bored so as to provide an interior seat for the spindle tip as well as a yarn entrance at the top and also a yarn outlet (12) at the side. A cross-pin 11 also is placed in the neck to lock with the spindle in the usual way. The blank from which the neck is formed may be a cylindrical piece of steel, such as may be cut from round stock, and readil reduced in a lathe to the form shown in t e drawings. The necessary 0 er ations thereon consist merely in the pro uction of a shoulder 13'and the internal and lateral borings, all of which can be accomplished with extreme rapidity and at slight expense on an automatic lathe. The small end of the neck is inserted in the alined apertures of the sheet metal sections and pressed therein until the rim boss 9 engages substantially flush with the shoulder 13, whereupon it is soldered or brazed in such position and firmly united to both sheet yarnmay pass into and through other hole 15 over. the opposite leg 3 so as metal sections. The two legs of the flier are then'trued up and pressed into the-desired finished shape, which may be done in any forming device. The ringv section 6 1s stamped of flat sheet metal and the hole 14 therein is pressed over the leg 4?, and the to space and brace the two leg portions of the'flier, in such manner as to prevent dis-' tortion of, or possible in ury to, the brazed o1nt between the leg sections and the neck notwithstanding that the flier be subjected to very rou h usage. The ring also may be soldered or razed to the legs,-and if desired this may be done at the same time as the brazing of the neck, the attachment being permanent in any event. The presser 1 is then mounted on the hollow leg 3 with its upper ring 16 disposed between the struck up shoulders 7 above referred to, and its lower ring 17 surrounding the lower end of the leg 3 which is rounded at this point to form a journal and support for it. The flier as thus formed is then ready for finishing and polishing but requires but little attention as to balancing, inasmuch as the proportions of metal on opposite sides of each sheet metal section have been predetermined to produce a balance as above mentioned.

From the description given, it will be plain that it is immaterial to the general aspect of my invention whether the portion 3 or 4 is ultimately disposed upon the outside of the leg and that it is also immaterial of what length either of these leg portions may be, provided they cooperate in producing a balanced and substantially symmetrical flier. It will be evident also that the length of the inner leg portion 3 is immaterial to the specific flier illustrated except in so far as it assists in providing counterbalance to the presser on the other leg, and that the principal function of the brace section 4 is to reinforce the flier at and around the neck 5, by providing double thickness at that point, as above described. It will thus be plain that the substantive part of my invention may be present in a variety of difierent forms, such as may be comprehended by the terms of the following claims.

I claim: 1. A flier comprising a neck turned from cylindrical stock, and two legs formed'of flat sheet metal rolled or folded into round leg-form, the material of said le portions being overlapped to provide two t icknesses of the sheet metal at their junction with the neo 2. A flier comprising a shouldered neck and two leg portions rolled up into round form from flat sheet metal, the sheet metal of said leg portions being overlap ed to produce double thickness at the. nec k junction and apertured at that point to receive the neck, said double thickness portion being se cured to the said neck against the shoulder thereof.

3. A flier comprising a neck and two legs rolled up into rounded form fi'om fiat sheet metal which is apertured to receive the neck, the sheet metal of said leg portions being overlapped to produce double thickness at the neck junction, and a ring spacing the rolled legs near their lower ends.

4. A flier composed of two legs both rolled up out of a singlestrip of sheet metal, the junction between the legs being flattened and apertured, a supplementary apertured bridge section united to such flattened portion and a neck in both apertures.

5. A flier composed of a main section comprising two leg portions rolled up out of a single flat blank of sheet metal with an intervening fiat portion between the rolled portions, a brace section having leg ortions and adapted to reinforce the said at portion, one of the leg portions of the said brace section being longer than the other leg portion thereof.

6. A flier composed of a main section comprising two leg portions rolled up out of a single flat blank of sheet metal with an intervening flat portion between the rolled portions, a brace section having leg portions and adapted to reinforce the said flat portion, one of the leg portions of the said brace section being longer than the other leg portion thereof and telescoped with the leg of the other section.

7. A flier composed of two leg portions which are rolled up out of a single strip of sheet metal and provided with a neck between its leg portion and a brace section having connected leg portions applied to the first mentioned leg portions on opposite sides of the said neck.

8. A flier composed of a main section formed of a sheet metal blank the end portions whereof are rolled into rounded or curved section and the intermediate portion whereof is substantially flat and provided with a neck, and a supplemental bridge section also formed of sheet metal and applied to the other section on both sides of the neck, the two sections being permanently united.

9. A flier composed of two 1e sections separately formed both out of flat metal and applied against each'other to form a double thickness at the top, and a neck secured to both said sections.

10. A flier composed of two sections separately formed both of sheet metal and both provided with bossed apertures and permanently joined, forming a double thickness bridge, with such apertures in alinement and a neck in such apertures permanently secured to both sections.

11. A flier composed of two sections assembled telescopically and one superimposed on the other at the top and a neck united to both sections.

12. A flier, comprising two sheet metal sections applied one against the other at the bridge and having alined apertures with oppositely-projecting bosses, and a separate neck in said bosses.

13. A flier comprising two sheet metal sections each rolled .to form a leg, and the two sections overlapping at the bridge.

14. A flier comprising two sheet metal sections each having a rolled portion constituting a leg and a bridge portion, said bridge portions being overlapped and provided with registering apertures, and a neck secured in said apertures.

15. A flier comprising two sheet metal sections having rolled leg portions assembled in telescopic relation, and bridge portions forming a double thickness at the neck.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES T. BURLIN.

Witnesses:

JAMES A. BROWN, OSCAR L. OWEN. 

